Tttie  Kodak  Propertie 


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The  Kodak  Properties. 


February,  1906. 


PUBLISHED  FOR  THE  INFORMATION  OF  THE  KODAK 
STOCKHOLDERS  AND  THE  DEALERS  IN  KODAK 
PRODUCTS,  BY  THE  EASTMAN  KODAK  COMPANY 
AT   ROCHESTER,    NEW  YORK,   THE   KODAK  CITY. 


Camera  Works.  Main  Office.  New  Office  and  Shipping  Building. 

EXECUTIVE  OFFICES  AND  CAMERA  WORKS,  Eastman  Kodak  Company,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


THE  PHOTOGRAPHIC  CENTER 


THERE  is  one  word  common  to  every  tongue. 
In  whatever  parts  of  the  earth  the  English  speaking  people  have  pushed  their 
way — there  it  has  been  adopted.  Where  the  French  explorer  has  cut  a  path  through 
the  jungle,  where  the  German  merchant  has  opened  up  trade,  where  the  church  has  erected 
a  tiny  chapel,  where  the  scientist  has  gone  in  search  of  knowledge —there  it  is  spoken.  In 
London,  in  Paris,  in  New  York,  in  the  heart  of  Asia  and  in  the  wastes  of  Africa,  along 
the  mighty  Amazon  and  in  the  islands  of  the  south  seas,  there  is  one  word  known  to  every 
tongue  and  dialect— KODAK. 

You  know  it  at  Bar  Harbor,  at  Atlantic  City,  in  Hyde  Park  and  on  the  Riviera. 
In  its  more  serious  uses  it  has  penetrated  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth ;  and  along  with 
it  has  gone  the  fame  of  all  the  Kodak  products.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century  the  Kodak 
Company  has  been  turning  out  photographic  staples.  Within  itself  it  has  grown  mightily; 
wherever  it  has  added  to  its  strength  by  the  purchase  of  an  outside  concern  it  has  been  by 
the  purchase  of  one  which  was  known  to  the  photographic  world  for  the  high  standard  of 
its  products.  And  so  it  has  come  about  that  Kodak  is  not  only  known  the  world  over,  but 
wherever  the  photographic  art  is  practised  it  is  known  with  confidence.  The  extent  of  the 
Kodak  business  to-day  is  not  due  to  the  work  of  the  selling  force,  not  to  the  advertising, 
not  to  the  trade  policy,  but  to  the  fact  that  in  every  manufacturing  department  the  controlling 
idea  is:     "Make  the  goods  better  than  anyone  else  can  make  them." 

In  the  carrying  out  of  this  idea,  enormous  manufacturing  properties  have  been  built 
and  acquired  in  Rochester,  in  St.  Louis,  in  Jamestown,  in  Toronto,  in  Harrow  and  in  Ash- 
tead.      This    book    shows    something    of    what   these   plants   are.      In   addition   to   what  the 


pictures  tell,  an  appreciation  of  the  extent  of  the  Kodak  properties  may  be  gained  when  it  is 
understood  that  the  floor  space  in  the  buildings  which  it  owns  and  occupies  is  approximately 
thirty  acres. 

Some  idea  of  the  thoroughness  of  the  manufacturing  end  may  be  gained  from  a  look 
into  the  film  plant  at  Kodak  Park  just  outside  the  City  of  Rochester.  Kodak  film  has  a 
transparent  base,  the  principal  ingredient  of  which  is  raw  cotton  treated  with  nitric  acid. 
The  principal  ingredient  in  the  sensitive  emulsion  with  which  it  is  coated  is  nitrate  of  silver. 
At  Kodak  Park  they  not  only  make  the  nitric  acid  with  which  to  treat  the  raw  cotton  and 
render  it  soluble  and  with  which  to  turn  silver  bullion  into  nitrate  of  silver,  but  they  go 
back  of  that  and  make  the  sulphuric  acid  out  of  w  hich  <  in  combination  w  ith  nitre  )  the 
nitric  acid  is  made. 

The  Park  property  consists  of  more  than  twenty-five  acres  on  which  are  buildings, 
mostly  fire-proof  or  of  slow  burning  construction,  with  a  floor  area  of  over  ten  acres.  In 
thoroughness  of  equipment  these  works  are  no  less  remarkable  than  in  extent.  Mammoth 
ice  machines  control  the  temperature  in  the  various  departments;  power  is  distributed  from 
the  electric  generators  and  is  applied  in  various  parts  of  the  plant  through  the  medium  of 
more  than  one  hundred  motors.  In  nearly  every  department  there  is  special  machinery, 
designed  and  built  on  the  premises.  Nothing  is  lacking  that  can  in  any  way  contribute  to 
the  economical  manufacture  of  perfect  films  and  plates  and  papers.  The  important  items  of 
manufacture  at  Kodak  Park  in  addition  to  the  Kodak  films  are:  Velox  paper,  Solio  paper, 
the  Eastman  Bromide  papers,  and  the  Standard  and  Stanley  dry  plates. 

In  the  City  of  Rochester  are  four  large  factories,  operated  exclusively  in  the  manu- 
facture of  cameras  and  sundries.  Of  these,  the  Kodak  Camera  Works  are  the  most  impor- 
tant, having  a  floor  area  of  143,000  square  feet  and  a  working  force  of  over  one  thousand 
people.  The  Rochester  Optical  Co.'s  works,  where  the  Premo  Cameras  are  made,  has  51,000 
square  feet;    the  Century  Camera  Co.'s  works,  where  the  Century,  Graflex  and  Cirkut  cam- 


eras  are  manufactured,  have  a  floor  area  of  48,000  square  feet;  and  the  Hawkeye  factory, 
operated  by  the  Blair  Camera  Company,  has  approximately  45,000  square  feet.  The  area 
devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  cameras  alone  is  therefore  more  than  six  and  one-half  acres. 
Unquestionably,  the  smallest  of  these  four  camera  factories  is  larger  in  capacity,  more  com- 
plete in  equipment  and  turns  out  more  goods  than  any  camera  factory  in  the  world  outside 
of  Rochester. 

The  main  offices  and  shipping  department  and  the  developing  and  printing  departments 
are  included  in  the  buildings  shown  in  the  frontispiece.  At  the  rear  of  the  two-story  office 
is  a  six-story  building,  one  of  the  first  factories  owned  by  the  company.  The  modern  six- 
story  structure  shown  at  the  right  is  already  partially  occupied,  although  at  this  date  it  is 
still  incomplete.     The  combined  areas  of  these  buildings  is  143,560  feet. 

Including  Kodak  Park,  the  floor  area  of  the  home  factories,  offices  and  shipping  depart- 
ments amounts  to  more  than  twenty-three  acres,  and  working  in  them  are  about  one-half  of 
the  Kodak  Company's  4,800  employes. 

As  a  result  of  the  steady  growth  of  the  business  covering  a  period  of  twenty-five  years, 
there  has  been  an  accumulation  of  something  besides  perfect  facilities  and  ample  capital. 
One  of  the  valued  assets  of  the  company  to-day  is  the  experience  gained  in  the  manufacture 
of  sensitive  photographic  goods  and  the  perfect  organization  of  the  corps  of  chemists  and 
expert  mechanics.  But  not  only  is  there  constant  progress  from  within.  Rochester  is  to- 
day the  Mecca  of  the  man  with  a  photographic  idea.  In  the  Kodak  City  are  the  facilities 
for  the  development  of  his  idea,  the  means  of  making  it  commercially  practical.  It  is  the 
inventive  and  progressive  as  well  as  the  commercial  center  of  the  photographic  world. 


Interior  of  Main  Office  Eastman  Kodak  Co.,  Rochester. 


One  of  the  Engine  Rooms,  Kodak  Camera  Works,  Rochester. 


Tool  Room,  Kodak  Camera  Works,  Rochester. 


Lacquer  Room,  Kodak  Camera  Works,  Rochester. 


Corner  in  the  Women's  Dining  Room,  Kodak  Camera  Works,  Rochester. 


Kodak  Park  Works,  Near  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


A  Near  View  of  the  Kodak  Park  Office  and  one  of  the  Film  Buildings. 


Looking   Toward  the  Boulevard  From  Kodak  Park  Office. 


Rear  View  of  the  Acid  Plant,  Kodak  Park  Works. 


The  Dope  Building,  Kodak  Park,  Where  the  Materials  for  the  Transparent  Film  Base  are  Mixed  and  Clarified. 


Making  Boxes  for  Photographic  Papers,  Kodak  Park. 


Women's  Dining  Room,  Kodak  Park.     The  Men's  Dining  Room  on  Lower  Floor  is  Similar  to  This. 


Draughting  Room,  Kodak  Park  Works. 


Water  Cooler  for  Refrigerating  Machines. 

Building  for  Manufacture  of  Film  Spools,  Kodak  Park  Works. 


Factory  Century  Camera  Co.,  Rochester,  NT.  Y 


Also  Occupied  in  Part  by  the  Folmer  &  Schwing  Mfg.  Co.     (Graflex  Cameras.) 


Factory,  Blair  Camera  Co.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


WHERE  QUALITY  TELLS 


IN  several  cases  where  photographic  manufacturing  concerns  have  been  purchased  by  the 
Eastman  Kodak  Company,  new  quarters  have  been  prepared  in  Rochester,  and  in  due 
time  the  goods  have  been  made  there  —  and  more  successfully  than  ever  before.  There 
are  two  notable  exceptions  to  this  rule: — The  American  Aristotype  Company  of  Jamestown, 
N.  Y.,  and  the  Seed  Dry  Plate  Company  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  two  concerns  which,  on  account 
of  the  superior  quality  of  their  products,  are  practically  above  competition,  still  occupy  the 
factories  which  they  occupied  before  their  purchase.  Theirs  is  an  unique  position  in  the 
photographic  field,  the  Aristo  Company  as  the  manufacturers  of  Collodion  papers  —  a  line  of 
manufacturing  which  it  may  be  said  no  other  concern  has  ever  undertaken  with  complete 
success,  and  the  Seed  Company  as  manufacturers  of  glass  plates  of  an  unapproachable  standard, 
hold  an  undisputed  leadership  by  right  of  quality.  The  Jamestown  factories  have  a  floor 
space  of  85,000  square  feet,  and  those  of  the  Seed  Company  104,000  square  feet. 

A  recent  development  of  the  business  is  its  rapid  growth  in  Canada,  the  Canadian 
Kodak  Company  now  manufacturing  plates  and  papers,  and  occupying  its  own  buildings  having 
a  floor  space  of  90,000  square  feet. 

In  addition  to  these  factory  buildings,  the  Eastman  Kodak  Company  is  just  completing 
a  factory  and  warehouse  in  Chicago.  This  building  is  121  x  178  feet,  four  stories  and  base- 
ment, and  is  of  slow-burning  construction  with  sprinkler  equipment. 

Two  new  wholesale  and  retail  buildings  have  just  been  completed  in  the  Northwest, 
which  are  models  in  the  way  of  buildings  for  the  photographic  stock  business.  One  of  these, 
in  Minneapolis,  occupied  by  the  O.  H.  Peck  Company,  is  50  x  160  feet,  two  stories  and 
basement,  and  the  other,  occupied  by  Zimmerman  Bros.,  St.  Paul,  is  50  x  80  feet,  two  stories 
and  basement. 

In  addition  to  these  American  properties,  ground  has  recently  been  purchased  on 
Twenty-third   Street,    New  York,  where   a   large   warehouse   will   be   erected   without  delay. 


Rear  View,  American  Aristotype  Works,  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 


THE    manufacture   of    Collodion    papers    is  one    of    the  most 
difficult   of   photographic   processes,  at   the   same  time  this 
is  the  paper  which  is  in  almost  universal  use   among  por- 
trait photographers.     The  Aristo  collodion  papers  have  been  made 
with  perfect   success   at   Jamestown   for   sixteen  years.  Platinum 
paper  of  the  first  quality  is  also  made  in  these  factories. 


Works  of  the  M.  A.  Seed  Dry  Plate  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Rear  View,  Seed  Dry  Plate  Works,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Office.  Storage  and  Shipping  Building.  Plate,  Haper  and  Film  Factory. 

Canadian  Kodak  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  Can. 


Roofs  of  Factory  and  Wholesale  House,  Canadian  Kodak  Co.,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  Can. 


Factory,  Wholesale  and  Storage  Building,  1 8th  St.  and  Indiana  Ave.,  Chicago,  111.    Occupied  by  Chicago  Branch  of  the  Eastman 
Kodak  Co.,  and  by  the  Factory  of  Taprell,  Loomis  &  Co.,  Manufacturers  of  Photographic  Card  Mounts. 


O.  H.  Peck  Company,  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Photographic  Stock  House. 


KODAK    IN  EUROPE 


ALL  of  the  buildings,  with  their  equipments,  shown  in  the  preceding  pages  are  owned  in 
fee  simple.     Of   the   properties   shown   in  the   pages  that  follow,   the    company  owns 
the  land  and  buildings,  only  in  the  cases  of  the  factories  at  Harrow  and  at  Ashtead. 
The  premises  occupied  as  stores  and  offices  are  rented  in  all  cases,  yet  they  must  neverthe- 
less prove   interesting    in    that    they   show   the    means  at   the    command  of  the  company  for 
distributing  its  goods  in  the  various  parts  of  the  world. 

At  Harrow  is  a  splendidly  equipped  plant  where  the  manufacture  of  Solio,  Dekko  and 
Bromide  papers  is  carried  on,  on  a  large  scale.  Here,  too,  are  extensive  departments  for 
"doing  the  rest,"  where  the  amateur  finishing  from  the  company's  retail  shops  in  London, 
fourteen  miles  away,  is  taken  care  of. 

The  total  floor  area  of  the  Harrow  Works  is  approximately  125,000  square  feet.  The 
plant  is  a  model  in  point  of  equipment  and,  as  at  Kodak  Park,  much  has  been  done  for  the 
comfort  of  the  employes  and  in  making  the  grounds  attractive. 

Among  the  best  known  photographic  products  in  England  are  the  Cadett  &  Neall  Dry 
Plates,  manufactured  at  the  Victoria  Works  and  the  Crampshaw  Works,  Ashtead.  These 
factories  have  a  floor  area  of  only  25,000  square  feet,  but  they  are  perfect  in  their  appoint- 
ments and  are  turning  out  goods  of  the  first  quality. 


Entrance  to  Grounds  of  the  Harrow  Factory,  England,  Showing  Mess  and  Recreation  Hall. 


Factories,  Harrow,  England. 


Boiler  Room,  Factory  at  Harrow 


Engine  Room,  Factory  at  Harrow. 


In  the  Developing  and  Printing  Department,  Harrow  Factory. 


Chemical  Laboratory,  Harrow  Factory. 


Letter  Press  Printing  Department  at  Factory,  Harrow. 


Physical  Laboratory,  Harrow  Factory. 


Mess  and  Recreation  Room,  Harrow  Factory. 


Cadett  &  Neall,  Ltd.,  Ashtead,  Eng.    Victoria  Works. 


Cadett  &  Neall,  Ltd.,  Ashtead,  Eng.    Crampshaw  Works. 


Board  Room,  Kodak,  Ltd.,  Clerkenwell  Road,  London. 


Reception  Room,  Clerkenwell  Road,  London 


Reception  Room,  Clerkenwell  Road,  London 


Kodak  Shop,  1 7 1 - 1 7 3  Regent  St.,  London,  W. 


Interior,  Regent  Street  Shop,  London. 


Kodak  Shop,  40  Strand,  London,  W.  C. 


Interior  Kodak  Shop,  Strand,  London. 


Mezzanine  Galleries,  Kodak  Shop,  Strand,  London. 


Interior  Kodak  Shop,  Strand,  London. 


Kodak  Shop  Interior,  Oxford  St.,  London. 


Kodak  Shop  Interior,  Brompton  Road,  London. 


Wholesale  and  Retail,  72  and  74  Buchanan  St.,  Glasgow. 


Kodak  Shop,  Interior,  Glasgow. 


Eastman  Kodak  Societe  Anonyme  Frangaise.    Kodak  Shop.  Avenue  de  lOpera  5, 


Kodak  Shop,  Interior,  Avenue  de  l'Opera,  Paris. 


Kodak  Shop,  Place  Vendome  4,  Paris. 


Kodak  Shop,  Interior,  Place  Vendome,  Paris. 


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Eastman  Kodak  Societe  Anonyme  Francaise— Headquarters,  Executive  Offices  and  Wholesale  Department,  Hue  d-Argenteuil  6,  Paris. 


Kodak  Gcsellschaft  m.  b.  H.,  Headquarters.    Wholesale  and  Retail,  Friedrichstrasse  lb,  Berlin. 


Kodak  Shop,  Interior,  Friedrichstrasse,  Berlin. 


Kodak  Shop,  Lcipzigerstrasse,  114,  Berlin. 


Kodak  Shop,  Demonstration  Room,  Leipzigerstrasse,  Berlin. 


Kodak  Shop,  Unter  den  Linden,  16,  Berlin. 


Kodak  Ltd.,  Wholesale  and  Retail  Branch,  Graben,  29,  Vienna. 


Societa  Kodak,  34  Corso  V.  Emanuele,  Milan. 


Kodak  Shop  Interior,  Corso  V.  Emanuele,  Milan. 


Kodak  Societa,  Wholesale  and  Retail,  10  Via  Vittore  Pisani,  Mil 


"If  it  isnt  an  Eastman, 

it  isnt  a  Kodak!" 


